aliubi

Forms

aliubī (not comparable)^[1] An inscription has the old spelling aliubei.^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin ali- (“other”) + ubī (“where”), with the stem of alius “other”.^[1][2] De Vaan takes the stem ⟨ali-⟩ of such words as alicubī as cut down from alius, which goes back to Proto-Italic *al-jo- and Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-io- (“another”); ubī goes back to Proto-Italic *kʷu-þei and Proto-Indo-European *kʷu-dʰi (“where”), beside Oscan puf (“where”) and Umbrian pufe (“where”).^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Besides an inscription,^[1] Varro uses it, of the same seed yielding tenfold in one place and fifteenfold in another.^[1][2]

Semantic evolution

It is elsewhere, in another place or in other places; repeated, it is in one place … in another, and aliubī atque aliubī now here, now there, as Seneca says that murder is punished differently in different places, but punished everywhere.^[1] It also means in some cases or sometimes: Pliny the Elder says the pinna's companion is a small prawn, sometimes a crab.^[1] Lewis & Short call it a rare form beside the contracted alibī, found once in Varro, far less often than alibī in Pliny, a few times in Seneca and the Digest, and never after a negative.^[2]

Timeline

• 116–27 BC – Varro of yields in different places.^[1][2][4]
• 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of punishments in different places.^[1][4]
• 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder in the sense sometimes.^[1][4]

Meanings

Adverb

1. In another place, elsewhere; repeated, in one place … in another.^[1][2]
2. aliubī atque aliubī: now in one place, now in another.^[1]
3. In some cases, sometimes.^[1]

Related words

• alibī
• alius
• ubī

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
2. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
3. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
4. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de